The Tigers won twice as many football games as they lost. They played 96 games. How many games did the win?
1 Answer
Dec 7, 2016
They Tigers won 64 games.
Explanation:
Let's call the games the Tigers won
With the information provided in the question we can write two equations we can solve using substitution:
Because we know they played 96 games we know we can add the wins and losses to equal 96:
And, because we know they won twice as many games as they lost we can write:
Because the second equation is already in terms of
We can now substitute
